apacheds-embedded is an embedded LDAP Directory Server using ApacheDS 2. It's primary purpose is for integration testing. As such, it starts up with a blank slate and cleans up upon shutdown. This can be disabled, so it's not limited to the testing use case.

License

Apache License, Version 2.0

Usage: Initialization

EmbeddedLdapServer embeddedLdapServer = new EmbeddedLdapServer()
embeddedLdapServer.init()

Usage: Shutdown

embeddedLdapServer.destroy()

Configuration

The EmbeddedLdapServer class has been developed with inheritance in mind to change behavior.

Common things you may want to change by extending the class and overriding some methods:

• The base partition name:
  • Override String getBasePartitionName()
    • The default is "mydomain"
• The base structure (i.e., the base DN of the partition):
  • Override String getBaseStructure()
    • The default is "dc=mydomain,dc=org"
• The LDAP server port:
  • Override int getLdapServerPort()
    • The default is port 10389
• The attribute names to index:
  • Override List<String> getAttrNamesToIndex()
    • The default is ["uid"]
• To disable deleting the ApacheDS working directory upon startup and shutdown:
  • Call setDeleteInstanceDirectoryOnStartup(false) and setDeleteInstanceDirectoryOnShutdown(false) or alternatively, override boolean getDeleteInstanceDirectoryOnStartup() and boolean getDeleteInstanceDirectoryOnShutdown() to return false
    • The default is true

ApacheDS also internally utilizes a working directory to build the directory server. ApacheDS (as of 2.0.0-M23) uses the workingDirectory system property if it's set and if not, will fall back to using System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir")+"/server-work-"+basePartitionName. This code can be seen in DefaultDirectoryServiceFactory.buildInstanceDirectory() in ApacheDS source code.

To change this location, set the workingDirectory system property.

This working directory gets deleted upon startup and shutdown by default to support testing unless methods in EmbeddedLdapServer are overridden, as described earlier.

The default credentials are described in ApacheDS Basic User Guide - Changing the admin password:

• DN: uid=admin,ou=system
• Password: secret

Example query with OpenLDAP client

ldapsearch -x -w secret \
  -D uid=admin,ou=system \
  -b ou=system \
  -LLL -o ldif-wrap=no \
  -H ldap://localhost:10389 \
  "(objectClass=*)"